Whaler, activist ship collide again off Antarctica - Polidicks

[quote]SYDNEY – The anti-whaling ship the Bob Barker and a Japanese harpoon boat collided Saturday in the icy waters off Antarctica — the second major clash this year in the increasingly aggressive confrontations between conservationists and the whaling fleet. No one was injured in the latest smash-up, for which each side blamed the other. The U.S.-based activist group Sea Shepherd, which sends vessels to confront the Japanese fleet each year, said the Japanese ship deliberately rammed the Bob Barker — named after the U.S. game show host who donated millions to buy it for the anti-whaling group. However, Japan's Fisheries Agency said the activist boat caused the collision by suddenly approaching the harpoon vessel No. 3 Yushin Maru to throw bottles containing butyric acid in an attempted attack on the Japanese ship. The Japanese agency accused Sea Shepherd of "committing an act of sabotage" on the Japanese expedition, noting that it is allowed under world whaling restrictions as a scientific expedition. Conservationists call the annual hunt a cover for commercial whaling. "We will not tolerate the dangerous activity that threatens Japanese whaling ships and endangers the lives of their crew members," it said in a statement late Saturday. Neither side's account could be verified. Video shot from the Bob Barker and released by Sea Shepherd shows the two ships side by side moving quickly through the water. The ships come closer together and the Japanese ship then appears to turn away, but its stern swings sharply toward the Bob Barker. The collision is obscured by spray, but a loud clanging noise can be heard before the vessels separate. Saturday's collision was the second this year between a Sea Shepherd boat and the Japanese fleet. On Jan. 6, a Japanese whaler struck Sea Shepherd's high-tech speed boat Ady Gil and sheared off its nose. The Bob Barker then came to rescue the crew of the Ady Gil, which sank a day later. Sea Shepherd and the whalers have faced off in Antarctic waters for the past few years over Japan's annual whale hunt, with each side accusing the other of acting in increasingly dangerous ways. Sea Shepherd activists try to block the whalers from firing harpoons, and they dangle ropes in the water to try to snarl the Japanese ships' propellers. They also hurl packets of stinking rancid butter at their rivals. The whalers have responded by firing water cannons and sonar devices meant to disorient the activists. Collisions have occurred occasionally. Japan aims to take hundreds of whales each year — mainly minke whales, which are not endangered — under a program that is allowed despite the international moratorium on killing whales because it is done in the name of science. Critics say the scientific program is a front for commercial whaling, and much of the meat is eaten. On Saturday, the Bob Barker found the whaling fleet for the first time since the time of the Ady Gil clash, Watson said. Sea Shepherd founder Captain Paul Watson said by satellite telephone on Saturday that the Bob Barker took up a position behind the Nisshin Maru — the Japanese factory ship where dead whales are hauled aboard and butchered — so the four harpoon vessels could not reach it, he said. "The harpoon ships started circling like sharks," Watson told The Associated Press from his ship, the Steve Irwin. "They were making near passes to the stern and the bow of the Bob Barker, then the Yushin Maru 3 intentionally rammed the Bob Barker." The Bob Barker sustained a 3-ft. long, 4-inch wide (1-meter long, 10-centimeter) gash in its hull. Welders aboard the ship were already working on patching the hole, and the Bob Barker would resume its pursuit of the whalers, Watson said. Watson said the Yushin Maru 3 appeared to stop moving after the collision and had not been seen by the Bob Barker's crew to have moved since, suggesting it also may have been damaged. The Japanese fisheries statement said the Bob Barker caused the collision by coming in too close to throw butyric acid — smelly, rancid butter that spoils whale meat — onto the Japanese vessel. "The No. 3 Yushin Maru immediately moved away to avert a collision, but it was grazed in its tail area," the Fisheries Agency statement said. The clash caused No. 3 Yushin Maru minor damage — its railing was slightly bent — but involved no injuries among crewmembers, the agency said. The governments of Australia and New Zealand, which have responsibility for maritime rescue in the area where the hunt is usually conducted, say the fight between the two sides is becoming increasingly dangerous and have repeatedly urged them to tone it down. [/quote] I guess that was a whale adventure. :cop: [url]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100206/ap_on_re_as/as_antarctica_whaling[/url]

Your puns suck

I guess the price was wrong.

That's not a viable pun sir.

Ow, my pun.

That was one [I]whale[/I] of a crash.

I guess they [i]collided off Antarctica[/i] :smug:

Boba gets the Cake

no wait

[B][I]FUCK YOU WHALE [/I][/B]Le Caps.

Someone should do something about these nuts.

In The News has degraded to HORRIBLE...they can't even be called puns because they're so bad. Your attempt was bad and you should feel bad. Wipe that smile off your face

[QUOTE=Alan Ninja!;20062246]Someone should do something about these nuts.[/QUOTE] [img]http://imgkk.com/i/8Ch.jpg[/img] tHEY MUST BE STOPED!!!!

what a [I]whale [/I]of a problem

I bet they'll have a [I]whale [/I]of a time in court.

you guys make about as much sense as a rattlesnake on PCP

[QUOTE=pointyface;20062286]In The News has degraded to HORRIBLE...they can't even be called puns because they're so bad. Your attempt was bad and you should feel bad. Wipe that smile off your face[/QUOTE] That. I mean look at this, the whole thread is people trying to make puns and most of the time failing. Should be bannable to post [B]only[/B] to make a pun (because In The News is going down the shitter).

I'll laugh (and cry) when this just escalates to one side blowing up the other boat.

I watch Whale Wars sometimes just to laugh at the activists. They never get anything done and they act so dramatic. I think out of seeing about 10 episodes, I've only seen one successful butyric acid hit on one of the whaling boats. They always try to ride out and throw them and then get the shit beat out of them by water cannons. It's pathetic

[QUOTE=RG4ORDR;20062111]Boba gets the Cake[/QUOTE] [img]http://www.monster-munch.com/images/CreepyPencilFace500.jpg[/img]

disaster of [i]smashing[/i] proportions

[QUOTE=rabidwulf92;20062542]disaster of [i]smashing[/i] proportions[/QUOTE] [img]http://chrisstubbs.com/AustinPowers.jpg[/img]

The japs are so crazy, I was watching one Whale Wars episode and they thought it was a wise and sensible idea to use an LRAD on their helicopter.

I can't wait until a whaler ship gets their asses kicked by a Klingon warbird

[QUOTE=markg06;20062583]The japs are so crazy, I was watching one Whale Wars episode and they thought it was a wise and sensible idea to use an LRAD on their helicopter.[/QUOTE] The dumb activists don't realize all they need is a giant 1980s consumer satellite dish (one of those 8 footers) to direct the LRAD back at the japs. The sound can be directed back very easily.

[QUOTE=pointyface;20062286]In The News has degraded to HORRIBLE...they can't even be called puns because they're so bad. Your attempt was bad and you should feel bad. Wipe that smile off your face[/QUOTE] Not all of them are bad. It's just this thread has some shitty attempts at puns and shitty attempts at trying to be funny by doing bad puns on purpose.

These whalers have a good dause (stopping illegal overkilling of whales), but building your own little "warships" to fight them isn't a good idea. There's more ways to stop whaling they fighting it. Politics, for example.

[QUOTE=Gmod_Fan77;20062976]These whalers have a good dause (stopping illegal overkilling of whales), but building your own little "warships" to fight them isn't a good idea. There's more ways to stop whaling they fighting it. Politics, for example.[/QUOTE] The whalers are legally killing the whales, the activists are just butthurt that they might possibly eat whales which are caught for research. Personally I don't give a shit, the Japanese can eat/catch whales if they want to.

Many cetaceans are very intelligent. We should not kill them. Some, if not most of them might be sentient.

[QUOTE=Callius;20063436]The whalers are legally killing the whales, the activists are just butthurt that they might possibly eat whales which are caught for research. Personally I don't give a shit, the Japanese can eat/catch whales if they want to.[/QUOTE] Lol you don't know anything about this. They aren't caught for research at all. It's all just a cover. killing several hundred whales a year definitely isn't research. And yes all of them go to market to be sold.